Before, he would have assumed he spent less time with humans than Ylva. But if she was raised by wolves, that might not be entirely true, and he says as much. "Possibly. There were no elves in my world, just humans in cities and towns, and animals in the wilds. We moved between the two commonly as a child. I didn't speak to humans alone until I was nine, after my mother left for the first time."

He paws a plate towards himself and laps up the bits of pink fresh salmon. Mmm. "Before I came here, I had just finished living among them for six months, and I was headed to the wild to live as a cougar until the compulsion to be social struck again."